Say hello to EveryCook, your robotic chef

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The future of home cooking started four years ago with a burnt
risotto. "You have to stir it for about 20 minutes," mechanical
engineer Alexis Wiasmitinow says. "I did a quick email check, came
back, and it was burned. I needed a device that stirred and
controlled the heat for me. It's the engineer's way: looking for
overkill solutions to simple problems."

EveryCook is
Wiasmitinow's answer. A sensor-based, internet-enabled cooking
device, its app suggests recipes and gives a list of ingredients.
Then, after some basic preparation (EveryCook can't peel "yet", but
it can chop), just drop in the components in the dictated order.
Fiddling with quantities has been designed out: a progress bar
fills up until you hit the required amount of an ingredient. "As
soon as it has all it needs, it sets the heat and time, and starts
cooking."

Wiasmitinow, who is 35 and lives in Winterthur near Zurich, has
designed six versions. The current iteration is the production
prototype and combines a pressure cooker, a stirrer and
stainless-steel cutting disks, all housed in an aluminium body. He
aims to sell it for 1,600 Swiss francs (£1,100) -- priced to
compete against the £864 Kenwood Cooking Chef. "The Kenwood is a classic," he says. "But
it's not intelligent."

Eventually, Wiasmitinow hopes to network your whole kitchen. "We
want to connect the stove and the pans and whatever is in your
kitchen, so that cooking a steak is as controllable as risotto."
Jamie and Nigella would be horrified.